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we are very much looking forward to sharing our story.
This is just another instance of Adafruit's "drama-journalism" functioning as advertising. Adafruit turns its director/ex-director (current status unknown) Phillip Torrone's compulsive personal feuds into principled-sounding "advocacy" and harvests the resulting outrage as free marketing. Adafruit publicising a dispute while not publishing the underlying letter/breach is the smoking gun for this.
People are afraid to speak out on this because engaging @ptorrone or critiquing Adafruit carries significant risks.
There is a pattern of aggressive public confrontation before private resolution along with disproportionate responses & difficulty disengaging with critics.
Even mild criticism or jokes has resulted in abusive messages from PT, with Phil Torrone contacting their managers, employers, ex-employers (as called out by sparkfun) and even a critic’s partner’s workplace.
PT will continue the escalation even after being blocked/suspended on platforms resulting in @ptorrone being temporarily banned from Bluesky last year. Some people were even harassed via their Etsy stores.
My take is I've never heard of Flux but I've repeatedly heard of Adafruit getting into drama, so the bayesian in me is definitely not prepared to jump on whoever Flux is. Better to wait for the facts, than give Adafruit the benifit of the doubt.
